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Comment by tsmarsh | Hacker News Reader

Yeah. For example, I don't find Veggietales to be family friendly. Its a minority opinion, but I can't get it removed from my kids profiles. So now I have to talk to my children, ugh.

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I mean, most of the shows for kids look extremely creepy and unsettling to me.

The introduction of a world where everything is 'fair' and 'nice' controlled by 'authorities' is something I notice often in those shows. The faces are big and stretched out from reality as a distraction from the theme. Some of them encourage weird experimentation that can go wrong easily while pushing for odd stereotypes. Good guy beats the bad guy with violence... punitive justice.. fair bit seems sexual, promoting eating disorders, creepy parental expectations and misleading nutritional science.

I watched veggietales in school as a kid, but I don't remember much about other than vague recollections of a joseph and the many colored coat adaptation.

I'm just curious, what do you find not to be family friendly about the show?

I imagine they mean that they don’t consider a show that teaches a particular religious tradition as fact to be appropriate for children outside of that religious tradition.

Not the OP, but if you're not Christian, that show might not be friendly to your family as it is explicitly targeted at Christians or people the shows creators hope will become Christians.

So that may not go over so well with, for example, a Jewish or agnostic family.

ah okay, makes sense. I always thought the biblical stuff was just a fraction of the stories they adapted.

Propagating Christianity was an explicit goal of the show:

"Their aim was to produce children's videos which conveyed Christian moral themes and taught Biblical values and lessons."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeggieTales

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